Silent E: The New Law Firm Default Is Virtual

The coronavirus pandemic has shaken the global health and economic infrastructure. The legal field is still reeling; and, law firms are adjusting to a new world. For modern law firms to succeed, it’s clear that providing virtual services is now a requirement; it’s no longer optional. But, taking the ‘e’ out of things like epayments and esignature , and normalizing those items as ‘ just ’ payments or signatures is going to take a significant mindset change for the vast majority of lawyers. Every law firm is going to have to adjust to virtual practice in a compressed time frame, in order to modernize for a clientbase that will require it. It’s not the best-case scenario, of course, that it took a major pandemic to usher a new age of technology into the law firm environment. But, the change will ultimately benefit lawyers, too. Now, it’s a question of how rapidly your law firm can a...